This week I’m chatting with Mary Jelkovsky the creator of Mary’s Cup of Tea – which she started after recovering from an eating disorder. Her intention is to inspire women to find their own inner peace and unconditional self-love. We talk about her experience with healing her body, mind, and spirit. We also discuss the idea of getting curious & unpacking the stories you’ve adopted from your caretakers, how our bodies shift and change during different seasons of our lives, how to disrupt the perpetual thought patterns that keep us stuck, shifting how we cope when we are faced with uncomfortable feelings/ emotions, how the language we use impacts our ability to recover, and emotional eating.

THIS EPISODE IS GREAT FOR ANYONE:

Who has struggled or is currently struggling with an eating disorderIs stuck in the binge/restrict cycleHas dealt with exercise addictionIs curious to learn about tools that can disrupt old thought patternsIs curious about intuitive eatingIs scared to try intuitive eatingWants to let go of counting calories & obsessing over the scale

IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

Mary’s background as a former bikini competitor & ballet dancer

Her story with bulimia + exercise addiction

How the fitness trend, is a safe haven for eating disorders

External validation can be addictive and it can diminish your ability to cultivate confidence from within

The language we use can help mentally separate ‘our identity’ from ‘the eating disorder’

Words are the meaning we attach to them

Words → Thought → Habits → Beliefs → Identity

How we find identity from a struggle/trauma we’ve experienced

Habits are more than just our mindset

Approaching meditation with gentle curiosity

Focus is greater than Hustle

Guilt & Shame around the idea of feeling joy & pleasure

The disconnect that come from the fear of feeling good, full, satisfied etc

“Unpacking” the stories we’ve adopted as our own narrative

Her explanation of why “all eating is emotional eating” and how emotional eating is connecting back to your own bodies wisdom

Shifting how we cope when we are faced with uncomfortable feelings/emotions